Behind the Scenes With the Mediums

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DATOS
Título Behind the Scenes With the Mediums
Autor David Abbott
Idioma Inglés
Tema Espiritismo
Fecha publicación 1907
Editorial Open Court Publishing Company
Páginas 360
Tamaño ...
Formato Papel
ISBN ...

Se trata de uno de los primeros libros que describen los métodos de los psíquicos fraudulentos. Aunque las técnicas utilizadas por los psíquicos de hoy pueden haber cambiado, los principios básicos descritos valen la pena aprenderlos por los magos.

Contenido

  • Half Hours With Mediums
  • I Introduction
  • II Washington Irving Bishop's Sealed Letter Reading in a New Dress
  • III Test Where a Trick Envelope with a Double Front is used
  • IV Test Where the Medium Secretly Filches a Letter from the Pocket of the Sitter
  • V The Mystic Oracle of the Swinging Pendulums, or Mind over Matter. A Rapping Hand. Light and Heavy Chest
  • VI Tests Given in a Large Store Room with Curtains for Partitions, Using Telegraphy, etc
  • VII A Billet Test Using a Trick Envelope. A Spirit Message Written on a Slate, in the Sitter's Presence
  • VIII Flower Materialization
  • IX The Dark Seance. A Deceptive Grip. Mental Tests Spirit Voices, Taps, and Lights
  • X Materialization. Preparation of Luminous Costumes, Method of Presentation, etc
  • XI Tests Given in a Room in a Hotel. Slate-Writing on Slates Selected, Cleaned, and Held by Sitter. Test Wherein the Sitter's Own Slates are Used. Billet Work in Connection Therewith. The Prepared Table
  • XII Reading Sealed Billets Before a Company in a Room in which Absolute Darkness Reign
  • Mediumistic Reading of Sealed Writings
  • I Introduction
  • II Preparation of the Writings
  • III Reading the Writings. Production of a Spirit Message
  • IV The Secrets Explained. Slate Trick Requiring a Special Chair
  • Spirit Slate-Writing and Billet Tests
  • I Introduction
  • II Message Produced on One of a Stack of Slates, First Method. Method Using a Rug or Newspaper
  • III Message on One of a Stack of Slates, Second Method. How to Pass the Slates from One Hand to the Other
  • IV Message Produced When but Two Examined Slates are Used. Some Expert Maneuvering, and the Importance of the "Pass."
  • V Message Produced on One of Two Slates Selected from a Stack, Third Method, where the "Pass" and Some Expert Maneuvering are Introduced. Production of a Message Written with a Gold Ring Belonging to the Sitter
  • VI To Secretly Read a Question Written on a Slate by a Sitter, when a Stack of Slates is Used. How to Secretly Obtain a Confession or Question, Written on Paper and Sealed by the Sitter, when a Stack of Slates is Used
  • VII Message Produced on a Slate Cleaned and Held under a Table by a Sitter
  • VIII Slate Trick Requiring Three Slates and a Flap. The Same Used as a Conjuring Trick. Preparation of the Slates
  • IX Slate Trick Requiring a Double-Hinged Slate and a Flap
  • X Independent Paper Writing. Two Slates and a Silicate Flap Used
  • XI Slate Trick with a Single Slate and a Flap, which is Suitable for Platform Production. Methods of Forcing the Selection of a Certain Word. Methods of Forcing the Selection of a Sum of Figures. The Same Trick Where Two Slates are Used. The Same When Three Slates are Used, and a Spoken Question Answered, with Words in Colored
  • Writing
  • XII Methods of Obtaining a Secret Impression of the Writing of a Sitter. A Store-Room Reading where this is Used. A Test Using a Prepared Book. How to "Switch" a Question. Tricks Depending on this Principle. Tests Given by
  • Various Chicago Mediums. Reading a Message by Pressing it on a Skull Cap Worn by Medium
  • XIII Tricks where the Sitter Brings his Own Slates. Various Traps. Psychometric Tests. Message on Slates Wrapped in the Original Paper in which they were Purchased. Other Messages
  • XIV Message on a Sitter's Slate Produced by a Rubber Stamp. Message Produced by an Adroit Exchange of Slates. Chemical Tricks. Other Methods. Means of Securing Information
  • Some Modern Sorcery
  • I Presentation of the Tests
  • II Explanation of the Secrets
  • III The Same as Adapted to Work in a Double Parlor.
  • IV The Use of the Card Servante and Blackboard
  • Some Unusual Mediumistic Phenomena
  • Some Strange and Unusual Tests with an Explanation
  • Materialization
  • Additional Information
  • Relation of Mediumship to Palmistry, Astrology, and Fortune-Telling
  • Tests in Connection with a Reproduction of the Sitter's Palm
  • Performances of Annie Eva Fay Type
  • Questions Written and Retained by the Spectators answered by a Blindfolded Lady on the Stage
  • Vest-Turning
  • Method Explained of the Performer's Vest being turned inside-out
  • An Improved Billet Test
  • Reading Billets for an Assembled Company
  • Appendix
  • Correspondence with Inquirers Through "The Open Court"
  • Mediumistic Seances
  • A Puzzling Case: Dr. Burgess to the Open Court
  • Spirit Portraiture: Mr. Bennett to the Open Court, Mr. Abbott to the Open Court, Mr. Bennett to Mr. Abbott
  • Addenda
  • Another Billet Test
  • The Swinging Pendulums Again
  • A Billet Test Improved
  • Wireless Electricity for Mediumistic Tricks
  • Index
Referencia
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